Reporter facilitates mobile citizen journalism in a new way. The application supports all Nokia smartphones on the market and it is seamlessly integrated into built-in gallery. This makes sending and commenting media files effortless and reliable.
(openPR) - Reporter service developed by Fromdistance has been nominated as Finland’s and Estonia’s joint representative to run for the MobileMonday Global Peer Award 2008. A jury of influential mobile market trend-setters chose Reporter as the most potential application to represent MobileMonday Helsinki Chapter at the next rounds of the competition.
“While all competitors showed international potential, Fromdistance's Reporter was unanimously picked by the jury. It combines trendy concept - user-generated content - with excellent service implementation that takes into account different requirements of value chain members", says Mr. Vesa-Matti Paananen, the MobileMonday founder and Mobility and Information Worker Evangelist at Microsoft.
“Winning the nomination at MobileMonday Helsinki - the original MobileMonday - carries a special value. We are honoured to represent the Helsinki Chapter in this competition”, says Mr. Jouko Vierumäki, CEO of Fromdistance.
Reporter is a service facilitating effortless and reliable sending of images and videos to publisher of choice. In Finland all leading publishers can be reached through Reporter. The innovativeness of the service unites good usability with efficient delivery of content to content management systems of publishers. Hence,
ordinary smartphone users may send content to be used by the publisher of his or her choice. Quality of images and videos is not compromised during sending – publishers get high quality user generated content.
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Press contact:
For further information on Reporter, contact Jouko Vierumäki, CEO of Fromdistance, jouko@fromdistance.com, +372 5292672. The website of Reporter service in Finland is www.julkaisuun.fi.
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Fromdistance Ltd.
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Fromdistance Ltd. is an Estonian software company specialised in challenging mobile applications for business use. The company was founded in 2004 and it is owned by its management and key employees.
Fromdistance MPR (Mobile Professional Reporter) is a solution for high-quality multimedia content creation on the go. By using state-of-the-art mobile devices content can be produced and transmitted for publishing easier than ever before.
Many leading media companies, publishers and content aggregators have chosen Fromdistance MPR due to its advanced features targeted at professional journalism: quality, reliability and easiness to use are never compromised.
Fromdistance MCR (Mobile Citizen Reporter) is a service for individual smartphone users to push their content to content management systems of professional publishers. It also enables publishers to make themselves reachable to smartphone users and manage the stream of content coming from them.
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